Tony Gallopin (Cofidis, le crédit en ligne) got the trophy for the Coupe de France ... in the Hippodrome of Vincennes!

Added: wednesday 09 November 2011 at 0:00:00

< Blog | share on | | | | |

On Friday 4 November, the Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme - in collaboration with PMU as a sponsor - organised a quite special night at the Hippodrome of Vincennes as a prize-giving ceremony for the Coupe de France 2011. Tony Gallopin (Cofidis, le crédit en ligne), Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team), Sylvain Georges (BigMat-Auber93), Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun) and Romain Hardy (Bretagne-Schuller), as well as the whole FDJ team, have received prizes. After that, some legens of the cycling world, like Bernard Hinault or Bernard Thévenet have battled with the 5 first placed riders of the Coupe de France in a road-car race ... Riders and former riders in a horse race, you don't get to see that often!

Let's look back on this special night in video.
Marc Madiot (President LNC / Manager FDJ): « Globalisation starts in France »
For his speech as President of the LNC, Marc Madiot mainly insisted on the role of France in cycling, the media but also on tomorrow's talents ... « Hey Pat McQuaid »: « « Globalisation starts in France, with the Tour de France. The Tour is the barometer of cycling. ».
Speech Marc Madiot (President LNC / Manager FDJ)
The prize-giving ceremony of the Coupe de France PMU 2011
Jacky Durand, Vincent Lavenu, Jean-François Bernard, Roger Legeay and Bernard Thévenet, among others, have handed out prizes to the five best riders of the Coupe de France 2011 as well as to the best team. Tony Gallopin (Cofidis, le crédit en ligne), winner of the Coupe de France, was the lucky one who got his trophy from Bernard Hinault:
The prize-giving ceremony of the Coupe de France PMU 2011
This video is quite long but we decided to share with you the whole prize-giving ceremony since you probably won't find these images elsewhere!
Bernard Thévenet wins from Hinault!
Did you think Bernard Thévenet would never win a race anymore? ... Not true! The winner of the Tour de France in 1975 and in 1977 won the ... road-car race – together with a jockey - only millimeters ahead of another legend of cycling, Bernard Hinault. Yes, that's quite some names! Young riders like Romain Feillu or Tony Gallopin were far from able of beating them ...

At this occasion, velowire.com decided to share everything with you and give a look behind the scenes of this race: impressions of the participants before the start, all details of Sylvain Georges « machine », betting on the winner with Jérémy Roy and the race commented by Marion Rousse (cyclist at Vienne-Futuroscope and girlfriend of Tony Gallopin). All that to allow you to re-live this event!
The horse race with riders and former riders at the Coupe de France PMU 2011
Tony Gallopin: « Early in the season, the Coupe de France was not a specific goal »
The winner of the Coupe de France PMU 2011, Tony Gallopin, looks back on his success (winner of the Coupe de France and best young rider). He of course also mentioned his future and his transfer to the Radioshack-Nissan team of Johan Bruyneel ...
Interview Tony Gallopin (Cofidis, le crédit en ligne)
Jacky Durand: « The 2011 season was wonderful »
The commentator of Eurosport enthusiastically looked back on the 2011 season for velowire.com and looked forward to the Tour de France 2012.
Interview Jacky Durand (Eurosport)
The photos of the prize-giving ceremony night of the Coupe de France PMU 2011
Now you've discovered this special night in video, check out the photos of the prize-giving ceremony night of the Coupe de France PMU 2011 at the Hippodrome of Vincennes !
The 2011 season summary interviews with the riders
This night was also the occasion for velowire.com to have a chat with some of the riders who attended in order to look back on their 2011 season with them. Check out these interviews in the article Prize ceremony Coupe de France LNC: the riders comment their 2011 season!
The bloopers of the night
At the end of the night, the riders of the FDJ team came together at the ground floor of the Hippodrome for an autograph session with the public. Well, that is ... as soon as you give them a felt-tip pen and some paper ... you can almost be sure it'll more be a drawing class than an autograph session ... Check out the bloopers!
The bloopers of the prize-giving ceremony of the Coupe de France PMU de Cyclisme 2011

This report was prepared by Thomas Djezzane and Thomas Vergouwen

by Thomas Vergouwen
Did you like this article? Tell your friends on Facebook by clicking the buttons below!

> 1 comment | shown 3604x

this article appears in the following categories: Coupe de France | share on | | | |